ocr: evidence, and again it is historically reasonable, since it is just at this time that the Nabataeans came into close political and cultural contact with Syria and, what was more important, with Rome. Next we come to the final century of Petra'si independence: the first century A.D. At another part of the site a large building of this time has been partially excavated; it is the residence of a wealthy Nabataean family. It consisted of a series of rooms bordering on (but not, apparently, opening on) a long, narrow central courtyard; a similar row of chambers probably exists on the unexcavated op ...
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